CHIUDI

Author: Adolfo Bellantuono

Subject
Stereoscopic plates dated to the first half of the 20th century, by an unknown author, showing the sarcophagus found in the underground burial chamber of the Tomb of the Pancrazi on Via Latina, following excavations by Lorenzo Fortunati in 1858, now preserved in the Gregorian Profano Museum.
The image shows the lid with a depiction of the Oedipus myth and a part of the sarcophagus with depiction of the myth of Adonis.

Accession number, photographs: MVF.VIII.31.18; MVF.VIII.31.20
Accession number, objects: MV.10408.0.0 ; MV.10409.0.0
Glass plate, silver bromide gelatine
12×24 cm
First half of the 20th century

Placement
Vatican Museums. Pinacoteca ➔ 3rd floor ➔ corridors

Credits
Vatican Museum Archives

Subject
B/W print dated to the early 20th century, by photographer Domenico Anderson, showing the decorations at the corner of the vault within the underground chamber of the Tomb of the Pancrazi, on the Via Latina, referred to at the time as the “Tomb of the Anicii”.

Accession number C130130S_Anonimo
Positive B/W
Paper/albumen
257×193 mm
ca. 1890

Placement
Museum system of the University of Parma. CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell’Università di Parma. Antiquarian collections of photographic prints.

Credits
CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione

Subject
B/W photographic print dated to the early 20th century, Anderson photo studio, depicting the ruins of the Basilica of Santo Stefano, in the area of the Tombs of Via Latina.

Accession number RI 13930
Paper/albumen
B/W print
21 x 27 cm
1900-1910

Placement
Civico Archivio Fotografico – Raccolte Grafiche e Fotografiche del Castello Sforzesco – Piazza Castello – Milano (MI)

Credits
Civico Archivio Fotografico – Raccolte Grafiche e Fotografiche del Castello Sforzesco

Subject
Triangular shaped fragment of slab with a low relief depicting the upper part of a sitting man, dressed with an exomis tunic cinched at the waist by a belt; behind the right forearm we can see the left one. The severe attitude of the man is underlined by his gaze: staring and focused in front of him, with his carved pupil. The messy beard and the mustache have curls, as well as thick hair where the pileus is placed, the typical pointed hat usually worn by Ulysses. The great mastery employed let us place this relief between the end of the 2nd and the 1st century B.C.
The marble slab probably belonged to the decoration of a sepulchre of the Republican age, revealed near the Barberini tomb in 1985.

Accession number 1201222860
Pentelic marble
Height 35.2 cm; width 26.5 cm; depth 3 cm;
Late 2nd – beginning of 1st century B.C.

Placement
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps

Credits
Ministero della Cultura

References
B. Andreae, Odysseus. Mythos und Erinnerung, Mainz am Rhein 1999, n. 168.

LIMC VI, 1, 1992, p. 966 (O. Touchedeu-Meynier).

M. De Angelis D’Ossat, Rilievo con figura di Ulisse, in Roma. Memorie dal sottosuolo, Ritrovamenti, p. 358, n. II 637.

Palazzo Altemps, Le collezioni, Roma 2011, p. 306.

Subject
Funerary altar representing a market scene, dedicated by Apelle, freedman of Claudius or Nero, and Asconia Quarta to L. Calpurnius Daphnus argentarius Macelli Magni. Found in the Calpurnia sepulchre in the archaeological area of the Tombs of the Via Latina.
The altar, currently in a private collection, provides clear chronological indication about the sepulchre’s use during the Neronian age. In this period the large market on Celio, where the deceased man carried out his job of money dealer.
Accession number –
Marble
Height 79 cm; width 41 cm; depth 34.5 cm; letters height between 0.4 and 2.7 cm
Second half of 1st cent. A.D.

Provenance
Tombs of the Via Latina, Calpurnia sepulchre

Placement
Massimo collection, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome

Credits
Images by permission of the Massimo collection, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome

References
AA.VV. Pecunia non olet. I banchieri di Roma antica, 2023, pp. 182-183.

CIL VI 9183 = ILS 7501 = Supplementa Italica. Imagines. Roma. 5, 5335 (F. Cerrone) = EDR0165457.

L. Fortunati, Relazione generale degli scavi e scoperte fatte lungo la via Latina, 1859, p.68, n.101.

J. Andreau, La vie financière dans le monde romain: les métiers de menieurs d’argent (IV° siècle av. J.C. – III° siècle ap. J.C.), Paris 2015.

Subject
Three fragments of marble slab, with signs of fixing pins, showing a Greek text elegantly carved with the burial dedication put by Kouirinios’ anonymous brother (Greek version of the Latin name Quirinius). The young boy died at 23 years, 6 months and 10 days. In the eulogy a very rare adjective was found: “ἀρχιγένιος”, that is inexperienced, green.
Found in the underground burial room of the Barberini tomb in the arcosolium infill n.6, during the excavation and cleaning conducted by Soprintendenza Archeologica of Rome in 1998-99.

Accession number –
Marble
Height 29cm; width 36 cm; depth 3 cm
Fragmentary
Late Imperial period (2nd-3rd cent. A.D.)

Provenance
Tombe della via Via Latina, so-called Barberini sepulchre

Placement
Tombe della via Latina

Credits
Archive of Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures by P. Pinci)

References
S.A. Cugno, Scavi e materiali archeologici del Parco delle Tombe della via Latina in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra a cura di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, pp. 247-260.

S. Orlandi, Una nuova iscrizione greca dalla via Latina, in Munus Laetitiae. Studi miscellanei offerti a Maria Letizia Lazzarini, a cura di F. Camia, L. Del Monaco, M. Nocita, vol. I, Roma 2018, pp. 93-100.

Relazioni R. Rea, 1998-1999, Archivio PA-Appia.

Subject
Fragment of a sarcophagus with an imago clipeata, depicting the bust of a young boy with a tunic and a cloak, held by genii of the seasons; below some wicker baskets with fruit. Found in the burial room of the Barberini tomb (from the SU 2119) during the excavation and cleaning conducted by Soprintendenza Archeologica of Rome in 1998-99.

Accession number –
Carrara marble
Height 33 cm; width 34 cm; depth 4 cm
Second half of 3rd cent. A.D.

Provenance
Tombe della Via Latina, so-called Barberini sepulchre

Placement
Tombe della Via Latina

Credits
Archive of Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures by P. Pinci)

References
S.A. Cugno, Scavi e materiali archeologici del Parco delle Tombe della via Latina in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra a cura di F.R.Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, pp. 247-260.

Relazioni R. Rea, 1998-1999, Archivio PA-Appia.

Subject
Large fragment of the left part of a sarcophagus’ lid decorated with acroterial mask and and figurative scenes, probably of a Dionysian nature. Found in the underground burial room of the so-called Barberini tomb (from the SU 2154) during the excavation and cleaning conducted by Soprintendenza Archeologica of Rome in 1998-99.

Accession number –
Proconnesian marble
Height 26 cm; width 76 cm; depth 3 cm
Second half of 3rd cent. A.D.

Provenance
Tombs of the Via Latina, so-called Barberini sepulchre

Placement
Tombe della via Latina

Credits
Archive of Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures by P. Pinci)

References
S.A. Cugno, Scavi e materiali archeologici del Parco delle Tombe della via Latina in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra a cura di F.R.Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, pp. 247-260.

Relazioni R. Rea, 1998-1999, Archivio PA-Appia.

Subject
Front of a sarcophagus in white marble with winged cherubs and a panther found in 1989 in the so-called Barberini sepulchre, during the excavation conducted by Soprintendenza Archeologica of Rome.

Accession number 425800
White marble
Height 33 cm; width 24 cm; depth 15 cm
2nd cent. A.D.

Provenance
Tombe della Via Latina, so-called Barberini sepulchre

Placement
Antiquarium di Lucrezia Romana

Credits
Archive of Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures by Santino Alessandro Cugno)

References
S.A. Cugno, Scavi e materiali archeologici del Parco delle Tombe della via Latina in Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, exhibition catalogue curated by F.R.Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Mantova 2022, pp. 247-260.

Relazioni C. Piraino e F. Bianchi, 1999, Archivio PA-Appia.

Subject
Statue of Zeus sitting on a rock; it dates back to the first half of the 2nd century A.D. and it’s preserved in the Villa dei Quintili’s Antiquarium – Appia Antica Archaeological Park.

Placement
Villa dei Quintili

Credits
3D by Fabrizio Banfi with the support of Chiara Stanga (Politecnico di Milano)